Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python

Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by simonw on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:12AM (#22854776)

You say "maybe they have a reason for not providing everything" - I cannot think of a reason not to provide me with API access to my own private bookmarks other than "we decided to invest our engineering resources elsewhere".

Which isn't a bad reason! But it's not a good argument for people not to scrape their own data.

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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by dewey on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:20AM (#22855176)

> But it's not a good argument for people not to scrape their own data.

Why would you want to scrape your own data if you an already request all your data and get a whole archive? https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...

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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by simonw on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:27AM (#22855226)

Because then you have to trigger and download a GB+ file every time you want to programmatically access your latest bookmarks.

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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by numpad0 on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:37AM (#22854910)

Everything Twitter used to and not anymore enable third party profit off “their valuable” data. It’s economically/strategically unsustainable or so they think.

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